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diatom.org is an educational and scientific, non-profit corporation in the State of Vermont founded by Stacy and Robert Edgar. Federal 501(c)(3) status is pending.

stacy@diatom.org Stacy received her doctoral degree in 2003 from the Department of Botany / Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Ed Theriot, and then conducted post-doctoral work at the Bigelow Marine Laboratory in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Her research interests have focussed on morphometric and molecular approaches to phylogeny and evolution of the freshwater planktonic diatom genus Aulacoseira.

robert@diatom.org Robert is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, where he taught courses in population biology, evolution and Darwin's Origin of Species and published research on diatoms for 34 years. He has curated the diatom collections at the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard University since 1976.

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Last updated May 2015

Representative publications

Edgar, R. K., A. I. Saleh & S. M. Edgar. [2015, accepted, in press] A morphometric diagnosis using continuous characters of Pinnunavis edkuensis, sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta: Bacillariophyceae), a brackish-marine species from Egypt. Phytotaxa.

Wilson, K., M. A. Maslin, M. J. Leng, J. D. Kingston, A. L. Deino, R. K. Edgar & A. W. Mackay. 2014. East African lake evidence for Pliocene millennial-scale climate variability. Geology 42(11):955-958.

Kingston, J. D., A. Hill, R. K. Edgar & A. Deino. 2007. Astronomically forced climate change in the Kenya Rift Valley 2.7-2.5 Ma: Implications for the evolution of early hominin ecosystems. Journal of Human Evolution 53(5):487-503.

Edgar, S. M. & E. C. Theriot. 2004. Phylogeny of Aulacoseira (Bacillariophyta) based on molecules and morphology. Journal of Phycology 40:772-788.

Edgar, R. K., J. P. Kociolek & S. M. Edgar. 2004. Life-cycle associated character covariation in Aulacoseira krammeri, sp. nov., a new Miocene species from Oregon, U.S.A. Diatom Research 19(1):7-32.

Edgar, S. M. & Theriot, E. C. 2003. Heritability of mantle areolar characters in Aulacoseira subarctica (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Phycology 39(6): 1057-1066.

McBride, S. A. [S. M. Edgar] & R. K. Edgar. 1998. Janus cells unveiled: frustular morphometric variability in Gomphonema angustatum. Diatom Research 13(2):293-310.

Edgar, R. K. & K. Laird. 1993. Computer simulation of error rates of Poisson-based interval estimates of plankton abundance. Hydrobiologia 264:65-77.